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Local and state officials can participate in a briefing call Thursday with the White House office of trade and manufacturing policy on the steps the administration is taking to bolster the nation’s defense industrial base. The call follows the White House’s recent release of “Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain

In response to the hundreds of vulnerabilities the nation’s defense industrial base faces — including a dwindling number of suppliers for many critical components, overreliance on foreign manufacturers and looming labor shortages — the Trump administration will immediately begin implementing the recommendations in a new interagency study of the defense base, Peter Navarro, assistant to

The outlook for lower-tier suppliers in the nation’s defense industrial base is troubling, with DOD facing “limited capabilities, insecurity of supply, lack of R&D, program delays and an inability to surge in times of crisis,” according to the Trump administration’s long-awaited interagency study of the defense base. The report, which is scheduled to be formally

A federal study on the health of the nation’s defense industrial base which is nearly ready for release will focus on near-term interventions needed to ensure military production could be rapidly scaled up in the event of a crisis, rather than more far-reaching changes that would address the nation’s loss of dominance in a variety